Hacking Question do you ever think it will be possible to overclock on switch?

[boscocraftXD]

okay. we know very little about how the switch works. hell, we do not even have a working launcher at this point (though the community is close) so if this is possible in the future, do you think we will ever overclock the switch's Tegra X1 chip?

 

[Reploid]

I think so

 

[Mustacheboyo]

okay. we know very little about how the switch works. hell, we do not even have a working launcher at this point (though the community is close) so if this is possible in the future, do you think we will ever overclock the switch's Tegra X1 chip?

It technically is overclocked when docked.

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[NodeTG]

hell, we do not even have a working launcher at this point

Actually we do, but I dont know if its released.

And most likely becuase if the dock can overclock it why cant we?
The only concerns are battery life and bending in the dock.

 

[boscocraftXD]

okay. what im talking about is a little... complicated....

as many Android owners will know, it is technically possible to OC a phone by flashing the ROM on the system with a custom ROM with a system OC feature, allowing you to increase the clock speed to your heart's content...

but is it possible to do this with the switch?

 

[Deleted User]

I would prefer a way to downclock the Switch, when older consoles like the nes, Genesis, PC Engine, Snes are emulated, to enhance the battery life.

 

[boscocraftXD]

I would prefer a way to downclock the Switch, when older consoles like the nes, Genesis, PC Engine, Snes are emulated, to enhance the battery life.

true... but overclocking could lead to improved performance on games like MK8DX, BOTW, Mario Odyssey, etc.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Okay so can someone smart explain to me how putting the switch into the dock which most of the purpose is to charge the system using the USB Cable and output image to a tv help with performance when people was complaining bout breath of the wild having framerate issues in some areas and then people saying that not playing with the dock helps fix them. Can someone do it when is less confusing to me please?

 

[MK73DS]

The Switch isn't overclocked when docked, it is underclocked when not docked.

But an overclock can be done in theory because we know the chip is originally at a higher clockspeed.

 

[Cubuss]

Actually we do, but I dont know if its released.

And most likely becuase if the dock can overclock it why cant we?
The only concerns are battery life and bending in the dock.

Get your facts straight boi,

 

[Deathscreton]

I don't think it'd be smart to overclock the Switch. If you mean raise the clock to normal Tegra levels, ie. 1.3GHz for the A57s (or up to those levels) and/or enable the extra A53 cores, then sure, I don't see why not (at least for increasing the clock speed. Enabling cores or increasing corecount may not be supported by the Switche's OS/games may not be expecting more than the four cores available). The Vita has done it, the N3DS has done it, the PSP did it as well, no reason talented coders couldn't make the Switch do the same.

EDIT: Had the core names swapped.

 

[the_randomizer]

And have increased heat and decreased battery life?

 

[kai_dranzer2003]

Yes, I think it

 

[Ericthegreat]

Might cause too much heat, that the switch was not optomized for, could even lead to extreme warping.

 

[Clydefrosch]

what i'd really want is docked mode with docked clock but outputting 720p. barely makes a difference on my tv but it should make a difference in performance

 

[Deathscreton]

And have increased heat and decreased battery life?

I don't mind the decreased battery life so much, but I really feel that the heat problem is a hit or miss right now. I fully believe that Nintendo is using this chip with the plan or idea of either unlocking additional cores in the future or unlocking the 1.0 GHz software limit. The fan we have now is small, but I think it's more than strong enough to handle the heat.

Speculation is fun.

 

[boscocraftXD]

I don't mind the decreased battery life so much, but I really feel that the heat problem is a hit or miss right now. I fully believe that Nintendo is using this chip with the plan or idea of either unlocking additional cores in the future or unlocking the 1.0 GHz software limit. The fan we have now is small, but I think it's more than strong enough to handle the heat.

Speculation is fun.

indeed it is....

 

[guily6669]

It's not overclocked on the docking station since the official chip on the Nvidia Shield TV still has higher stock clocks, so no matter what, the chip has been downclocked.

But after the device gets fully hacked if we can OC I would contact a friend from other forum to make me a custom full copper huge cooler and use my Artic MX-4 thermal compound...

And I might make a custom portable battery charger at 14volts like the dock station charger with the lipos I have that I don't use on my RC planes, I have a few 6A lipos with 4 cells and one huge 6 cell lipo battery for my Heli which I never mount it.

 

[HexZyle]

Okay so can someone smart explain to me how putting the switch into the dock which most of the purpose is to charge the system using the USB Cable and output image to a tv help with performance when people was complaining bout breath of the wild having framerate issues in some areas and then people saying that not playing with the dock helps fix them. Can someone do it when is less confusing to me please?

Docked mode upscales the resolution. Some parts of BotW weren't optimized as well as they could be and HD tipped this over the edge resulting in stutters.

So in more understandable language: docking the Switch improves its performance, but it also increases how much performance a game can eat through if it's particularly graphics-heavy. (More pixels = more problems) This can result in worse net performance in docked mode if the developers aren't careful.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Docked mode upscales the resolution. Some parts of BotW weren't optimized as well as they could be and HD tipped this over the edge resulting in stutters.

So in more understandable language: docking the Switch improves its performance, but it also increases how much performance a game can eat through if it's particularly graphics-heavy. (More pixels = more problems) This can result in worse net performance in docked mode if the developers aren't careful.

So is using 1080P bad for performance compared to lower resolutions?